Sentence examples for of getting stranded from inspiring English sources
With volcanic ash still disrupting flights and 10ft-high waves leaving the Riviera more battered than a cod and chips, it's still touch and go whether many of the A-listers will brave the trip for fear of getting stranded.
I'm not suggesting that we make a sport of getting stranded just to see what heart-warming lifelines the world will throw at us, but I've got to admit that it can produce memorable travel moments.
It's not such a big deal once you're used to it, they will tell you amid tales of getting stranded at the job or of clearing roadways in the middle of the night, and besides, with two easy winters before this one -- last season had only 63.6 inches, well under the normal total of 93.5 -- it was just a matter of time.
"I'd be more skeptical of flying them for fear of getting stranded somewhere or just them canceling flights," said Gina Maddox, a communications coach and speaker who lives in Pensacola, Fla., and flies around the United States two and a half weeks out of every month.
If I could not use my smartphone, I would be afraid of getting stranded somewhere.
Finding the ramp was definitely out, but at least I might make it back to Beijing that night instead of getting stranded by the cement plant.
We were heading up to Port Alberni area, and we kind of got stranded for several hours, to the point where one of us was approaching hysteria.
The carmakers are eager to make their first customers happy, so they are bending over backwards to help with the charging infrastructure and to allay "range anxiety" — the fear of running out of electricity and getting stranded, because all-electric cars cannot go as far as conventional ones.
All airports were open Monday in Spain and the country volunteered to become the new hub of Europe to get stranded passengers moving again.
To help address that problem, Tesla is in talks with a major gas station and convenience store chain that could vastly expand the EV-maker's network of charging stations — and reduce the likelihood of its customers getting stranded someplace on an hours-long drive.
Female penguins have being getting stranded hundreds of kilometres from home on South American coasts.
